Teaching to foster critical and creativing TH!NKing at North Carolina State University

The TH!NK initiative at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is part of the university´s five year Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). This initiative is designed to train faculty to utilize more strategies that cultivate critical and creative thinking in their classroom. TH!NK provides a comprehensive framework for implementing strategies that support higher order thinking skills through faculty training, mentoring, and formal assessment of program goals. TH!NK will begin its second year in August 2015 with a cohort of approximately 30 faculty participating from across the university including computer science and freshman engineering. Student learning outcomes include the application of critical and creative thinking skills and intellectual standards in the process of solving problems. In addition, students are provided with increased opportunities to reflect on their own thinking and the thinking of others.